Sometimes Ellie likes to wear two pairs of panties because she can't decide which pair she wants to wear.

All these uncles sound sort of mean.

Jars- My uncle is still mocking me for making my lover case t's too short when I was first learning to write cursive.

When I was in third grade my handwriting wasn't very good so I had to meet with the principal for help. The principal of my school, Dr. Forrest Fernkoff, had a doctorate in handwriting and had made all of the handwriting films that the school used for handwriting instruction. He instructed me to use a shorter pencil. This story has become legend in my family.

Oh my god! "Lover case t's!" I meant LOWER case t's. Now THIS is something I should actually get teased about!

All of my sibs (and me) were basically breastfed until the next baby came along and kicked us off around age 2-3. My baby brother breastfed until he was close to 4 because there was no new baby to take his place. He's also the smartest one of all of us and will probably cure cancer about half an hour after graduating from college. COINCIDENCE??? (Well, probably yes. But still. Breastfeeding is awesome.)

Plus, if you wanna tease anyone, tease my mom, you know? Not that she deserves it either, but at lest she deserves it a wee bit more than me.

Heh - true!

(We don't tease Baby Bro about it at family gatherings, but only because we tease him instead about being the most enormously fat baby of all time. We used to call him Gorgo the Babysaur. He grew up tall & skinny though - it's like he gained all the weight he was ever going to by the age of 3 and then just kept growing up and up and up.)

All these uncles sound sort of mean

My uncles aren't at all! And they all would have been really young at the time (my youngest uncle is only 7 years older than me). I think what they said was actually an affectionate "what a weird little kid you are" but it was MORTIFYING to me.

Proof that I'm not all about the icky links: [link]

Oh, um... huh. How 'bout that....

Tacos minus 40 minutes.

Tacos sound good. Almost as good as a burrito.

All these uncles sound sort of mean

My uncle IS kind of mean. This X-mas, however, he was making fun of my other uncle for a) having shorter hair and looking like a Republican and b) having a job that he likened to being a hooker (NotMean!uncle is a certified massage therapist, which he became after retiring from the post office)

Oh man the AP account of snow falling in Baghdad for the first time in living memory just made me cry. (Mostly due to the quote from The Dead in the last line.)